Hybrid Infrastructure Architect

at Teleport

• Job title: Infrastructure Architect
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud, Google Cloud Platform, Grafana, Prometheus, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Gurugram, India

About the role

• Infrastructure Architect responsible for designing and implementing multi-cloud infrastructures. Collaborating with teams to ensure high availability, security, and cost efficiency in cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain standardized infrastructure blueprints across GCP (global) and Tencent Cloud (APAC/China).
• Implement secure cross-cloud connectivity, including Tencent CCN and GCP Interconnect, ensuring compliant data flow across regions.
• Define and enforce IAM/CAM standards, network security, and data residency controls in line with GDPR and China MLPS 2.0 requirements.
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to ensure consistency, repeatability, and auditability.
• Review infrastructure designs and guide development teams to follow approved patterns.
• Provide Level 3 escalation support for critical infrastructure and cloud-related production issues.
• Participate in major incident response, supporting recovery efforts across multiple regions and cloud providers.
• Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for infrastructure incidents and implement corrective architectural improvements.
• Collaborate with SRE and DevOps teams to improve system stability and operational maturity.
• Design and support a centralized monitoring and observability setup across GCP and Tencent Cloud.
• Implement consistent metrics, logs, and traces using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or ELK.
• Enable OpenTelemetry for unified tracing and logging across regions.
• Configure alerts and health checks to proactively detect infrastructure degradation.
• Design and maintain DR architectures (Active-Active or Active-Passive) across regions and cloud providers.
• Implement backup, replication, and data recovery mechanisms, including cross-cloud storage strategies.
• Define and track RTO and RPO targets for critical systems.
• Participate in and support DR drills and failover testing to ensure readiness.
• Support cost optimization initiatives, including usage analysis and rightsizing of cloud resources.
• Assist in implementing Committed Use Discounts (GCP) and prepaid or bidding models (Tencent Cloud).
• Identify opportunities to reduce data egress and inter-cloud transfer costs.
• Build visibility into infrastructure costs and work with teams to optimize spend without impacting reliability.

Requirements

• 4-5 years of experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with GCP and working knowledge of Tencent Cloud.
• Experience designing multi-region, highly available cloud architectures.
• Solid expertise in Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Practical experience in incident management, troubleshooting, and RCA.
• Understanding of cloud security, networking, and compliance requirements.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools.